I received this via Goodreads FirstReads in exchange for an honorable review.---Loved the concept, but just couldn't get into the story:("It's not you book, it's me"

Really... what the fucking fuck is this shit? Sorry for all the strong words but... I really have NO IDEA whatsoever what I was reading apart from a dhiarrea of words. Lots of words to explain lots of nothings and no movings forwards. So fallen angels. Wars on heavens. People who steal angels parts and blood for drugs and to do magics with it. And murders. And a guy who is human but no and is sth more but also all of before but no and something more but no but yes but no but yes but who knows bu...

3.5 of 5 stars at The BiblioSanctum http://bibliosanctum.com/2015/08/14/b...t all begins with a fallen angel. The War in Heaven has come to Paris – or what’s left of it. The proud city is a ruin now, the once beautiful Seine clogged with the ashes of the dead and destroyed. House Silverspires, which used to be one of the most powerful Fallen factions, has followed Paris’ downfall into decay and disarray. It is thought that the House’s founder Morningstar has abandoned them, or he may be dead; ei...

After a strong start, I was delighted to feel a little sympathy for the devil, revelling in a prodigal use of magic, the temptations and the promise of learning a new magical craft, but soon after, I wondered why we were stuck in the house...And then the book turned into a murder mystery! Oh! Fallen angels and the Jade Emperor and even more all mixed into a multiple mythos pot and we've got rivalries between the houses becoming more and more prominent.All well and good. Sort of.The problem I ran...

Beautiful setting - an alternate-history Paris, devastated by wars both terrestrial and magical, decaying but still filled with terrible beauty. Gangs run the streets, and others cluster to Houses for protection - Houses run with ruthless amorality by fallen angels.Biblical, Vietnamese, and Greek myths mix beautifully with original fantastic elements in this world.Here, Philippe, a Vietnamese man brought to Paris as a conscripted soldier and then abandoned to the streets, is brought against his

4.25 stars.The House of Shatterd Wings is a very interesting book. It’s a blend of post-apocalyptic urban fantasy, historical fiction and mystery, set in a Paris as fallen as the angels who inhabit it, with some influences from Vietnamese and Greek mythology. It could be seen as a murder mystery, but I find it's mostly about political intrigue between fallen angels and their Houses, a story of murderous magic and very old grudges. I’ve never found anything similar, and I probably never will.What...

[I received an ARC through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.]I liked the premise, I really did—not to mention that theme of the broken, rotting throne at night against the backdrop of a ruined Paris. There's something both sick and magical to such a city. The Seine river blackened and polluted by magic turned sour, horrors lurking in its waters. Gangs scrapping remnants in order to survive, Fallen angels being their favourite preys, preys that end stripped up of blood and bone and bas...

I really want to give this more stars. The world-building is gorgeous, the settings atmospheric and much of the writing is both and more, sentence by sentence at least. I loved the concepts, and the blend of multicultural mythology brought to life. However the characters feel so... distant, and there is such an unemotional tone throughout that I struggled to care even slightly about their fate. I can barely remember most of the names, and there were some really lovely ones too. Much is made of a...

OK, so I read an early draft of this book a year or two ago and thought that it was awesome...but the final version is even So Much Better, which is saying a LOT! I read this book from beginning to end on an overnight flight between the US and UK last night, with many, many distractions going on around me (i.e. I was traveling with my kids) - but I was absolutely gripped by this novel the whole way. It is such a beautiful, powerful, genuinely haunting fantasy. Set in a post-apocalyptic Paris rav...

I blurbed this book:Lyrical, sophisticated, lush, suspenseful—HOUSE OF SHATTERED WINGS brings to life an exciting world of deep magic and complex, layered characters infused with de Bodard's unique awareness of the flow of currents of power in a colonial landscape.

“Power is power. Those who hold it seldom remember where they came from.” TW: Violence, drugs. REP : Vietnamese MC, lesbian MC, w/w relationship, m/m relationship, black side character.4/5 stars! Look, fallen angels have never been my thing and I think, part of what fucked it up was The Mortal Instruments series (I´m sorry ya´ll) but when I heard of this (thank you, random internet page) I decided to give it a chance. It sounded interesting enough. It is interesting, to an extent at least. It

Full Review at Tenacious Reader: http://www.tenaciousreader.com/2015/0...4.5/5 starsThe House of Shattered wings is a fresh and intriguing book that has a fascinating take on fallen angels in 1930s Paris. Much like a mafia or gang style set up, their are rival houses of Fallen angels. The city is trying to recover from a magical war, it is suffering and scarred but recovering. It’s dark, broken and beautiful, much like the fallen angels themselves. I was quite taken by the prose and the world bu...

2020-06: 4 stars. I love Aliette de Bodard’s writing. It’s smart and sharp, with dark and brilliant colours running through it. As well, there’s often a deconstruction of colonialism, and wonderfully rendered, fraught relationships. In this series, we have an alternate history of Paris, years after a terrible war at the turn of the century between Houses. The Houses' rulers and many of the residents are fallen angels. At the start of this story, there are numerous tensions, again, between the Ho...

A brilliant new entry.. I really enjoyed this book. Full review to come.